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I hope you can join us
for a reception honoring

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Miss Wakoski, in the Student
Union following the reading.

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It's in the terrace lounge,
which is the hardest

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place to get to in the union.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's on the third floor.

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On the far West side.

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Just follow the crowd.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I have a couple of thousand
copies of our schedule.

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I'll leave some at
the edge of the stage

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and I'll have them
at the reception too.

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Our schedule, of course,
is already out of date.

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We've added two readings
since we've printed it.

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We have 11 readings
in the next 13 weeks.

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And I take role at all of them.

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[LAUGHTER]

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The first unannounced
reading on the schedule

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is next Wednesday night.

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The fine novelist,
Richard Yates,

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will read for us
in this auditorium.

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Please notice, when you
do get your schedule

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if you don't have one, we
have two Sunday readings

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this semester.

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Sunday afternoon readings.

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So don't come every
Wednesday night, just almost

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every Wednesday night.

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We're trying to gather
material together

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for the first newsletter
of the semester.

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So if you have any
good news, would you

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please pass it along to me.

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We print only good news.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Diane Wakoski, last
read for us in 1973.

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And we're very happy to have
her with us again tonight.

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Her books are too
numerous for me to read.

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But I will tell you the
titles of a few of them.

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Virtuoso Literature
for Two Hands,

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Inside the Blood Factory, The
Motorcycle Betrayal Poems,

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my favorite title, Dancing on
the Grave of a Son of a Bitch.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And most recently, The
Man Who Shook Hands.

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She's poet in residence
at the University

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in East Lansing, Michigan.

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We're very happy to welcome
her tonight, Diane Wakoski.

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[APPLAUSE]

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